World Literature English Subject - Columban College BSIT-IV Brief Background about Renaissance, notable characters with brief history and works.

1. Important people from
the Renaissance
age of discovery, and the
enlightenment
Rameses Francia
Ramir Mijares
Miguelito Paraiso
Mark Anthony Sencio
Norvin Echon
Adrian Arfapo

2. Renaissance
•means “rebirth” in French.
•to describe their own age as one in which
learning, literature, and the arts were reborn
after a long, dark MiddleAges.
•one of the most interesting and disputed
periods of European history.
•1350 to 1620.

3. How did the time period come about?
• It began at the country of Italy.
• The Great Plague is seen as a dividing event between the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
• Starting with Petrarch, Italian intellectuals began to reject
medieval thinking and habits.
• This mind-set eventually dominated in Italy and spread to
the rest of Europe. Politically, Spain, France, and England
emerged as powerful territorial monarchies.

4. Renaissance
• the invention of the moveable type creates
another dividing event.
• Italians cities such as Florence and Venice became
rich through trade and industry.
• These cities became the center for many artists
and sculptors.

5. Most Famous Characters
Michelangelo LeonardoDaVinci
Donatello Raphael
William Shakespeare Johannes Gutenberg
Martin Luther
Johann Gutenberg John Calvin Galileo Christopher
Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan Isaac Newton
Prince Henry the Navigator King Ferdinand Queen
Isabella
HenryVIII Queen Elizabeth I Jean Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire John Lock Nicolaus Copernicus Petrarch
Francisco Pizarro Hernando Cortes .

6. Johannes Gutenberg
• invented the first real printing
press in Germany
• The first book he printed was
the bible.

7. John Calvin
• influential French theologian
• pastor during the Protestant Reformation.
• principal figure in the development of the system of
Christian theology later called Calvinism

8. Martin Luther
• He protested against the catholic church by nailing a list
of 95 complaints to a door of a church.
• He is credited with starting the reformation.
• Reformation was a schism from the Roman Catholic
Church.

9. Nicolaus Copernicus
• He was born February 19, 1473 in Poland.
• He was the first astronomer who said the earth moved
around the sun.

10. John Locke
• Father of liberal philosophy
• His ideas helped lead to the American revolution.

11. Voltaire
• He was born November 21, 1694 in Paris, France.
• He was the greatest French author philosopher.

12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• He was born on June 28, 1712 in Switzerland.
• He was a philosopher who said that man was essentially
good by nature.

13. Hernando Cortes
• He was born December 2, 1485 in Spain.
• He was the conquistador who conqueredAztecs and
Mexico for Spain.

14. Francisco Pizarro
• He was born in Spain in 1475.
• He was an Italian explorer and conqueror of the Incas.

15. Petrarch
• Francesco Petrarca
• she was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy
• one of the earliest humanists.

16. Queen Elizabeth I
• She was born in England in 1533.
• She is recognized as the best queen England ever had.
• Here reign saw many accomplishments including
Shakespeare’s play and drake’s explorations.

17. HenryVIII
• King HenryVIII was born on June 28, 1491 in England.
• He is famous for his six wives and starting his own church
of England when pope forbid him to divorce his wife.

18. King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella
• The king and queen of Spain financed the voyages of
Columbus to the “NewWorld”.

19. Prince Henry the navigator
• He was born on Portugal in 1394.
• He opened a navigation school and sent many voyages
from England to Africa.
• He was nicknamed “the navigator” because he was
responsible for sending so may voyages.

20. Christopher Columbus
• Italian explorer
• Navigator
• Colonizer
• Beginning of European
colonization of the Americas.
• He led the first expedition to cross the Atlantic ocean,
discovering the new world for Europe

21. William Shakespeare
• He was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
• the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
• Some of his plays are
• Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet

22. Galileo Galilei
•Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer,
philosopher, and mathematician
•father of observational astronomy
• father of modern physics
• father of science

23. Galileo Galilei
• invented an improved military compass
• law of the pendulum

24. • Navigator
• First to circumnavigate the world
Ferdinand Magellan

25. Sir Isaac Newton
• English physicist
• Mathematician
• law of gravitation
• Theory in light and color

26. The 4 Most Important
Renaissance Artists

27. Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo di ser Piero daVinci
• father of paleontology
• father of ichnology
• father of architecture
• Vitruvian Man
The proportions of the
human body according toVitruvius

28. Donatello
• Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
• Renaissance sculptor from florence
• St.mark
• Penitent Magdalene
• Equestrian statue of Gattamelata

29. Raphael
• Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
• The Deposition 1507
• St.Michael 1504
• The School ofAthens

30. Michael Angelo
• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• One of the great artist of the renaissance.
• Pietà
• St. Peter’s Basilica
• The Creation of Adam
• David